Monsta, can you tell me more about the apt issue. Afaik it's a cosmetic problem fixed upstream in Debian unstable right? I checked the code in mintupdate, I don't see how different we're supposed to update the cache. Can you give me more info as to how this was fixed by Schoelje?

maxic wrote:
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$ system-config-printer
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Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf", line 10: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
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How come this error keeps popping back up
updating font cache... Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf", line 10: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected

Looks good. There is some difference, the fonts look more smooth, there are less sharp edges... well, like in Ubuntu
In fact, I've taken these settings right from Ubuntu's fontconfig-config package.

clem wrote:- aptdaemon 1.1.1 imported.

Looks good too, software-properties-gtk can be started again.

clem wrote:Monsta, can you tell me more about the apt issue. Afaik it's a cosmetic problem fixed upstream in Debian unstable right?

Yes. It's been fixed in 0.9.10 a month ago, but new releases [url=http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/apt.html]keep coming[/url] into Unstable, so the system can't automatically transfer the package into Testing.

clem wrote:I checked the code in mintupdate, I don't see how different we're supposed to update the cache. Can you give me more info as to how this was fixed by Schoelje?

He either threw away or commented the pieces of code with get_indexes calls (among some other stuff) and replaced them with his own code. I can't give more detailed info as the commit is huge.
Maybe it's better to ask him directly. The other way is to get apt 0.9.11 from Unstable, the bug will not pop up with it.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mint-meta-debian-mate : Depends: mate-mime-data but it is not installable
Depends: mate-vfs but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

clem wrote:- libopus0 is now multiarch [please test this as much as you can]

Well, the installation went fine, libopus0:i386 no longer wants to remove its 64-bit counterpart along with pidgin and various multimedia stuff.
As for the thorough testing, we need someone with a real machine to test it in Steam, Wine and Skype. Anyone?

maxic wrote:
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$ system-config-printer
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Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf", line 10: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
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I have been using OpenOffice installed from the Apache repository for a long time without any problem. When I tried UP7, I experienced display problems with OpenOffice4 Writer. I experienced the same problems with OpenOffice4 Writer on SolydX, both with kernels 3.9.1 and now 3.10.2. LibreOffice 4.1 has NOT these problems.

The cause of the problem seems to be related to the use of the Adwaita theme. At least, when I changed the theme, the problem disappeared.

OTTH, while I observed the problem with the Mint themes (in my case, it affects Synaptic, Evolution and Network-Manager -- at least the applet), I noticed that changing the theme "solved" it, even NM, but after a reboot.

Edit:Caja is popping up and idling at 40% cpu when I start Chromium apparently (and goes away when I close it) so I'll check for issues on their side...
Chromium 28.0.1500.95 Debian jessie/sid (213514)

I'll stick to Firefox in the meantime !

Edit 2: I'm running LMDE MATE 64bits and I downloaded a file under Chromium that may have caused Caja to infinite loop ?!...
(Anyone with the same issue ?)

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Monsta wrote:As for the thorough testing, we need someone with a real machine to test it in Steam, Wine and Skype. Anyone?

Tested on my 24/7 box (no VM): Steam installed but complained that libGL.so.1 was missing at the end of its own download/update. I fixed this with 'apt-get install libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386', and it runs great. I went through all the menus/store/big picture and did not find any obvious problems. I downloaded and ran Portal with no issues.

I use Wine just for ImgBurn and have not encountered any problems. Overall I'm starting to feel pretty good about UP7 at this point.

I also upgraded to incoming via update manager. Most things are running fine, didn't have a problem with my theme, but don't run the default themes anyway. I'm using both gnome-shell and cinnamon. Things i noticed:

1) my sound server has disappeared or is not running anymore. There is no audio applet in the task bar and the sound settings dialog does not show an output device. Same result when checking pulse audio manager

2) some gksu (I suppose) started applications do not accept the password. Examples are software center and mintupdate from the menu. The pop-up requesting my password always come back with the message that the password is incorrect. mintupdate from the taskbar work flawlessly, though. Also synaptics accepts the password just fine. starting gksudo from terminal works, gksu does not recognize my password

Other than that, I don't have any issue with the current state of things, at least nothing I noticed yet